Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Georgetown has a wide variety of summer offerings: https://summer.georgetown.edu/

My DS attended the 5-week Summer College program and had an absolutely amazing experience. Not only did he make a wonderful connection with a faculty member, but he got to live in the dorms and experience life has a college student. Highly recommend!

What grade was your child during summer college program?

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown has a wide variety of summer offerings: https://summer.georgetown.edu/

My DS attended the 5-week Summer College program and had an absolutely amazing experience. Not only did he make a wonderful connection with a faculty member, but he got to live in the dorms and experience life has a college student. Highly recommend!

What grade was your child during summer college program?

Anonymous wrote:did you guys get your kid the meningitis B vaccine before they went? usually given senior year of HS for protection in college but thinking if I should give it to my sophomore as attending one of these this summer.
thoughts?

No — DS obtained just prior to leaving for freshman year. Did 2 programs summer before senior year of high school without issue.

did you guys get your kid the meningitis B vaccine before they went? usually given senior year of HS for protection in college but thinking if I should give it to my sophomore as attending one of these this summer.
thoughts?

Anonymous wrote:I'm not a fan of these programs. They are just money makers. Better to spend time on an EC or at a job. My DD got into Ivy with a good old fashioned summer job.

It not about getting into a college, it's about learning more about a subject and getting a taste of what college can be like.

Both my kids had summer jobs AND did a short pre-college program the summer before junior year. For both, it confirmed their interest in the subjects they now major in and helped demystify what it's like to live in a dorm with a random roommate. Less of an issue for my DD who has done sleepaway camp for a long time but really helpful for DS who is a homebody who hated the one time he tried sleepaway. Also, for DD I think it really helped her to see that there were other kids super passionate about the same thing she is, and that she'd likely find more of them in college.

I have no idea if it helped with admissions (probably not) but neither was an Ivy-caliber student anyway. One's at a big state U and the other at a midrange LAC. But it helped their confidence and sense of direction going into junior year and was well worth the price for that. FWIW, DD's at Susquehanna was <$1k which I thought was very reasonable. DS did Georgetown and I think was $3Kish? Expensive for us but in the fairness balance between the kids, less than we'd spent over the years sending DD to the sleepaway camp he didn't want to do.